Matt Tate is a Chicago-based musician (U8 Touch Guitar, Chapman Stick, Guitar) and instructor with over 20 years in music. For the last 15 years, he has dedicated himself to Touch-Style instruments and the tapping technique, to which he has contributed many innovations. This style allows him to play up to three separate musical ideas simultaneously; exploring polyphony, polyrhythm, and polymetrics all by himself. This exploration is intensified exponentially when accompanied by other musicians.

Pavlov(3) is Matt's mechanism of expression. Comprised of an ever-(r)evolving cast of players, Pavlov(3) can become anything at anytime - from Solo performance to large Ensembles. Ambient to avant, technical to brutal.